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Theme code Index	35L6L1 3521
Also known as	Walk in de Parlor, Walking in the Parlor
Composer/Core Source
Region	United States
Genre/Style	Minstrel, Stage
Meter/Rhythm	Hornpipe/Clog
Key/Tonic of	G
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Ionian (Major)
Time signature	4/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Gumbo Chaff
Book/Manuscript title	Book:The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo
Tune and/or Page number	p. 11
Year of publication/Date of MS	1851
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WALK IN THE PARLOR. See "Walking in the Parlor."
T:Walk in de Parlor
M:4/4
L:1/8
R:Air
B:Gumbo Chaff - The Complete Preceptor for the Banjo (1851, p. 11)
N: A later edition of the earliest known banjo tutor, published in 1848.  It was written by Elias Howe, whose pseudonym Gumbo Chaff
N:is taken from Thomas Dartmouth Rice's 1834 blackface character.  The 1851 edition was published in Boston by Oliver Ditson.
N:In 1850 Howe sold some of his works to Ditson (this one among them) and agreed not to publish similar works for ten years.
Z:AK/FIddler's Companion
K:G
GA|B>DD>D EDG>A|B>Gd>B AAGA|B>DD>D ED G>A|BGdB GGGA|
B>DD>D EDG||A|B>Gd>B A2 GA|B>DDD E>D GA/A/|G>Bd>B G2 z [DF]|
GB d2 GBd2|T>Bd>B A2 z2|G>Bd>d d2 dd|edBG A4|
G>B d>d d2 gd|e>d B>G A2 [GB]A|B>DD>D EDG>A |B>Gd>B G2 z2||

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